So, I've been telling myself for quite a while that I'm going to work on putting a family household binder together... like literally I had printables saved to my computer from this past April. Well, there's definitely no better time than the beginning of the year to get it done! So, here is our family household binder and family emergency binder and let me tell you, I love how they look! For our family household binder, I was able to pull most of the printables that I used from the following sites: I Heart Organizing, iMom for the 2014 monthly calendars, Organizing Home Life, and DIY Home Sweet Home. I also created some of my own printables including the cover sheets, chores, date/family night ideas. For the sections, I included:Faith: includes Bible Emergency Numbers for the days when I need more of God's influence, some prayers that I found on iMom as well as some motiviational quotesCalendar: Each month has it's own calendar, followed by budget and then several weekly plannersDate Night/Family Fun Ideas: pretty much speaks for itself. I plan to scour sites like groupon to see if there are any other ideas that we can use.Finances: includes an envelope for receipts, bank acct info, bills.Cleaning: has my own home-made chores list as well as an in-depth spring cleaning checklist, found here.Health: has medications, check-ups, medical/dental insurance info; hope to expand and put family favorite and healthy recipesMaintenance Schedules: for home and autosHome Projects: because Lord knows we're always doing some sort of home improvements in our homeMisc: has emergency information, baby sitter information, packing checklists, shopping listsContacts: pretty self explanatoryThat is, in a nutshell our household planner.

For our emergency binder, I found a great comprehensive list from Simply Fresh Designs that has literally everything that you might need to grab in the event of a family emergency. Plus, it helps bring about discussions of what everyone needs to do, where they need to go in the even of an evacuation.

I feel like I have a really good start on this binder as most of the things are already in the same area, but it will be nice to have everything in an easy, grab-and-go binder. Please note, that I recommend putting copies of originals in this binder and storing original docs in a fire-proof and water-proof safe.